During the trainingcycle at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., recruits are taught the basics of battlefield survival, introduced to military daily routine and taught personal and professional standards.

The 1991 graduate of North Harford High School joined the Marine Corps inAugust.

Conducted each year since 1960, the UNITAS operation joins ships, aircraft and naval ground forces of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet with South American units for six months of combined naval warfare exercises.

UNITAS is designed to improve cooperation between U.S. and South American forces.

While participating in UNITAS Clark traveled more than 22,000 miles and visited several South American ports, including Cartagena andMalaga, Columbia; Manta, Ecuador; Calloa, Peru; Coquimbo, Valparaiso, Talcahuano and Punta Arenas, Chile, and Ingeneiro White, Argentina.

The USS Dahlgren's home port is in Norfolk, Va.

Clark, a 1985 graduate of North Harford High School, joined the Navy in 1987.